Posted on 08/14/2017 4:42:52 AM PDT by Skywise
A white nationalist was fired from his job after Twitter users began naming and shaming alt-right supporters involved in yesterday's deadly Charlottesville rally.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Beat me to it.
If someone were to express, and it became known at work, extreme views—I don’t care if it is BLM or KKK or otherwise; if they fly the Nazi, Islamic, or Confederate flag, I’d fire them without hesitation. As a company owner myself, I see absolutely nothing illegal about this. This is not a matter of discriminating against the usual suspects (gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, etc.). Fly those flags, express those views, whether you act on them or not, you are fired. Period.
This is one of the reasons Jim Rob cites (and I believe for good reason) for using their own servers to host Free Republic instead of farming it out.
It is possible Free Republic might decrease costs and improve services by having them hosted, but they would be subject to the whims of a company that either won't stand up to being bullied by the left into dropping hosting, or is in active collusion with the left to eliminate opposing points of view.
They would certainly label Free Republic as "hate speech" simply because they disagree with much we post, and cannot refute it in the arena of logic and rhetoric. So they take the shortcut by default of trying to gag their opponents.
In the case of this particular issue, they would simply maintain that support of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly when it comes to some radical cause means that you support, and are part and parcel of that radical cause, and are therefore guilty of..."hate speech".
Mind-numbing, nova-brilliant level stupid.
Does Free Association also require Free Disassociation?
Free speech only stops government from doing anything. Private companies don’t have to put with bull crap from idiots. I wish some of you knew what the first amendment protected.
Kind of hard to claim that someone defamed you as a white supremacist when you're filmed at a white supremacist rally.
Does top dog publicly declare when associates are fired?
You said “Orwellian”, and that is spot on.
“Hate Speech” is intrinsically Orwellian. To liberals, that means anything they disagree with.
Those other folks don’t have jobs to get fired from
Which makes me wonder even more if this was all a staged event.
What if you had an employee who was very religious yet that person's religion was deemed hostile by society? Fire or keep?
Actions have consequences. Fire ‘em. Agreed. Zero tolerance for any of this BS. As a company owner, as a citizen with good moral and ethical values, we cannot do anything but fire them.
I take it you only read the first sentence of my post.
They called them “thugs”.
Let’s not act like this stuff isnt happening both ways whenever people get a clean crack at it.
better watch out...you’re not adhering to the groupthink zeitgeist...
Offensive Content. Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable...
They give examples of child porn, etc but those are an incomplete list.
They may:
investigate violations of this Policy or misuse of the Services or AWS Site; or
remove, disable access to, or modify any content or resource that violates this Policy
Hole Large Enough, meet Tractor Trailer.
I was more addressing your statement that he had a claim against his employer. As for the newspaper, he would have to prove malice and good luck with that. I would suggest he find an employer more in keeping with his political positions and get on with his life.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.